Everyday Math Dictionary

Everyday Math Dictionary

We thought we would see a lot of graphs in math, but we never thought we’d see so many homographs!!!

Mrs. Callicoat’s 4th Grade Class

2008-2009

Everyday MeaningPOINT

*Unit as a game score.

*sharp end that can hurtYou.

*Aim with body usuallyFinger.

Everyday MATH Meaning

POINTThe endpoint is any place on a line, line segment, or ray.

Decimal point for instance when your writing a decimal number.

44.212..3

You say “and”

Everyday Meaning

_________

Slide By: Emma Lachs

Reflection• If you

look in a pond you can see your reflection. • A mirror can make a reflection of the

sun.

• If a word is backwards you can use its reflection to read it correctly.


Reflection

Slide By Savanna Mellas

A reflection is when you flip a shape, but when you flip the shape

it’s still the same shape but in a different order.

Everyday Meaning

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Slide By :Gabe Altabarani

Intersect

*To divide or cut a paper

*To divide highways or make roads

Everyday MATH MeaningINTERSECT

Slide By: Justice Bradley

To meet or cross like rays, line segment, and a cross is an intersecting line!

Edges intersect to make vertices!

Everyday Meaning

Slide By: Mr. Ransford

Pair

Pair = Two of the same objects that are normally used together. Such as shoes.

You can also work in a pair like a partner.


Ordered Number Pair

Slide By: Sean Baker

Two numbers are used to find a point on a grid.

The X axis finds the number going horizontal.

The Y axis finds the number going vertical.

Everyday Meaning

A compass is something that leads you in either in North, East, South, or West.

Compass

Slide By: Savanna Mellas

If you are lost in the woods and you have a compass you will probably find your way back.


A compass is a math tool used to make circles. A circle is not a polyhedron. A compass lets you make perfect circles.

Compass


Everyday MeaningVolume

Slide By: Sarah Kitslaar

Volume is hearing or how loud

something is.

Hair with volume is when you try to make your hair bigger.

The books in a library also known as a series of books.


VOLUME

Slide By: Anna Enright#7

Volume- the measurement of how much space is in a figure. Volume can be shown in cm.3, in.3, and m.3!!! You can also, measure it in gallons and liters.

KEY Width length height volume

Width 7cm.3

Height 8cm.3Length 5cm.3

5cm.3 7cm.3 8cm.3

280cm.3

Everyday Meaning

Being regular and normal

_Average__

Slide By: Sophie Cvengros

Most common

In the middle

average


Average

Slide By: Robin Kelly

You get the average by adding all the numbers in a group then divide by how many numbers there are. Otherwise known as the mean.

Everyday Meaning

Slide By: Elizabeth Moore # 15

Sentence

A group of words.

It has to begin in a capital.

You write sentences.

It usually has at least 3 words.

This is an example of a proper sentence:

The dog ran by the house.


A sentence that uses math symbols instead of words. Symbols such as…

+,-,*,/,=,<,>

It has to have, at least 2 numbers and something that equals the other. Like…

4xm=40

Sentence

Slide By: Kaitlyn McDonald #13

Everyday Meaning

Your tooth can lay on an angle when it is not strait.

Angle


If you desk is on an angle it is not lined up with the others

An angle is when something is crooked or not in line with the others.


A angle is a figure formed by 2 rays or 2 line segments.

Angle


Kinds of Angles

Acute angle Right angle

Obtuse angle

Also it is measured in degrees.

Everyday MeaningDegree


If you have a thermometer and you see the circle that means degree. For example: 70°F.

Also there is a brand of deodorant called degree.


An angle can be at a 30 degree angle and can make a half or full circle. A right angle is 90 degrees. Acute, obtuse, and right are 3 types of angles.

Degree


A degree is a symbol meaning a temperature or an angle degree.

Everyday MeaningRight

Slide By: Larry Phan

A true answer/ statement

The east side of a person’s image


Right angle

A Right angle is a 90 degree angle.

Slide By: Ana Uribe #20

The Right angle is formed by 2 perpendicular lines that intersect.In a cube or a square

There will be a corner that looks like a L

And that’s the 90 degreeAngle.

Everyday Meaning

An item that a marketer or company tries to sell.

Product

Slide By: Sophia Holt

Production:

A show an actor or actress puts on.


ProductThe answer to a multiplication problem.2x3=6 so, 6 is the product.


Everyday Meaning

Something that isn’t likely to stay the same.

Slide By:Owen Crawford & Clayton Burket

VariableWOW! The

Weather is

supposed to

change a lot

today!


A symbol, commonly a letter substituting a number.

Variable

Slide By: Clayton Burket & Owen Crawford

X*9=9,398X=8224+Z=6+3

Z=5

Everyday MeaningDividend


A dividend is to get a boost to get ahead of the others.

You can get a dividend in games.


Dividend


Dividend= the number being divided.

=____

66 is the dividend.

Everyday MeaningFace


Face is the front of your head. It’s your forehead and down to your chin.

If you give your mom a dirty face your mom might say," Don't make that face because it will stay that way.”


Face


A face is a surface on a 3-d shape that helps make its figure.

Faces are on a die or cube.

face

Everyday Meaning

MEANING#1WE COULD NOT LEAVE THE RADIUS OF THE PLAYGROUND.

RADIUSTHE RADIUSIS THE OUTERBONE THATCOVERS YOURLOWER ARM.

Slide By: ANDREW HAKE


RadiusA line segment that

goes out to the halfway point of a circle or sphere.

Slide By: Fernando Perezchica

Everyday Meaning

Coordinate

Slide By: Kaitlyn McDonald #13

*When People work together nicely and easily.

*Something that is the same amount of importance.

Hey! No cutting in line!


Slide By: Elizabeth Moore # 15

Coordinate

A number used to locate a point on a number line.

One of the two numbers in an ordered number pair.

The number pair is used to locate a point on a coordinate grid.

Everyday MeaningMean

Slide By: Derek Wang

It is the total opposite of nice.

A word that describes a rude person.

Get out of my way!

Move!

Hotdogs here!

Some thing that I did not mean to say.

move!

I did not mean to say that.

Everyday Math Meaning

The sum of numbers divided by numbers.

1,1,2,2,2,3,3, 4,6,6,

Mean

Slide By: Eric Samuta

It often “means” average!

Everyday MeaningMode

Slide By: Gabe Altabarani

*Speaking different languages

*Modern modes of transportation

*A style of clothes

*A way a fashion model moves down a run way

Everyday Math Meaning

**Mode means The that shows up in a score or a data most often.

**What number shows up the most often in those pool balls? 3

Appears the most in these numbers!!!

By: Justice Bradley

Mode

Everyday MeaningFamily

Slide By: Owen C.& Clayton Burket

A group of species that are somehow related.

Everyday MATH Meaning“fact” Family

Slide By: Clayton B. & Owen C.

Addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction facts that have the same numbers.

5*9=45

9*5=45

45/9=5

45/5=9

Fact

Families!

Everyday MeaningFlip


Gymnastics flip Diving flip


Flip


To turn over a figure so it’s on it’s other side

Everyday MeaningHeight


The measure of how high a object from bottom to top 4 ft. 6 ft.

1,454 ft.

1,707 ft. including antennas


HEIGHT

Slide By: Ana uribe#20

The height of a parallelogram : length of the shortest line segment between the base of a parallelogram and the line containing the opposite side.

That shortest segment is perpendicular to the base and is

also called the height.

Height of a prism or a cylinder : The length of the shortest line segment between the base of a prism or a cylinder and the plane containing the opposite base. The shortest segment is perpendicular to the base and is also called the height.

Height of a triangle : The length of the shortest line segment between the line containing a base of a triangle and the vertex opposite that base. That shortest segment is perpendicular to the line containing the base and is also called height.

Everyday MeaningMedian

Slide By: Derek Wang

Median like in the middle of the road


Slide By: Eric Samuta

Median

It is in the middle of the order largest to greatest.

1,1,2,2,2,6,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,10,11,12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The median

Everyday Meaning

The extent to witch something can vary: Bicycles are available at a wide range of prices.

An extent of ability, knowledge or understanding; scope: I am always trying to widen the range of what I know about other counties.

Range

Slide By: Elizabeth Moore# 15


Range

Slide By: Kaitlyn McDonald

The difference between maximum and

You usually subtract them.

minimum.

Everyday MeaningRound


An adjective that describes the shape of a 3-dementional figure or a 2-demetional shape. For example a circle or a sphere.

If you walk the out side of a park you walked a round it.


RoundWhen you round a number, you make it so it is easier to work with.


Round

Everyday MeaningKITE

Slide By: Anna Enright#7

A kite is a light piece of wood with paper or plastic. You fly kites on string. You need wind to fly a kite. All over the world people fly kites!

Everyday Math MeaningKite

Slide By: Sarah KitslaarKite- A kite is a quadrilateral with two pairs of the same equal sides. All sides can NOT be the same length to be a kite. Kites are not rhombuses!

No, I don’t mean the kite you fly! This kind of kite is a quadrilateral. Or a shape!

My attempt to make a mathematic kite!

Everyday MeaningRay

Slide By:Sophie Cvengros

A sun ray A name

A suffix like Hoo[ray]

Happy


Ray


A line that stops at one point and goes on forever on the other.

R o b I n

Everyday MeaningSolution

Slide By: Fernando Perezchica

You can find a solution to a math problem.

You can gargle water with a solution of salt when you have phlegm.


A VALUE THAT MAKES AN OPEN SENTENCE TRUE WHEN IT IS SUBSTITUTED FORTHE VARIABLE.

SOLUTION

Slide By: ANDREW HAKE

Everyday MeaningLikely


Being believable suitable

probable Likely chance

0

u

unlikely likely 50 50 chanceVery likely

cretin


Likely


A good chance of something happening

40% chance probability

Fraction chance 40

100

Everyday Meaningbase


There are bases in baseball 1st base 2nd base and 3rd base.There were bases back in

the day. They were like a big fort that people would gather at when there was a big battle, for protection.


Base


The base of a figure would be the bottom.

Everyday Meaningformula


There is a formula for coca cola.

A formula is like chemicals

+ =


Formula

Slide By:Sean Baker

The formula is the way to find the answer.

For example A=B*H

Everyday Meaning

The Earth can be on an axis when it orbits the sun.

Axis


The globe in your class room can be tilted on its axis to show a pacific country or state.


Did you know that there is a plural noun for axis which is axes.

Axis


Axis is where 2 number lines on a grid intersect to make a coordinate grid.

Also there is a y and x. The y is the line going down and the x is the line going across.

Everyday MeaningCylinder


A glass that scientists use to mix chemicals.

A cylinder is like a can.


A 3- d figure that has 2 bases that are circles that are parallel and congruent and has a curve surface.

Cylinder

Slide By:Ana Uribe

Everyday Meaning

A region of land within limits of ownership.

Area

Slide By: Clayton B.& Owen C.

Private AREA


The amount of space inside a figure the formula to find it is…

Area

Slide By:Owen Crawford & Clayton Burket

A=B*H

45cm.

23 cm.

23*45=935 cm.2

Everyday Meaning

Slide By: Justice Bradley

Fair

There's a Glen Ellyn fair. And you can get candy, rides, and win prizes.

Fair sunny day.You may be fair by letting every one play at recess.


FairWhen there’s a 50/50 chance to win a game, you can say the game is FAIR.

Equal chances to win!!!

Mrs. Callicoat versus this guy

NOT

Fair!!!50

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